Pulmonary eosinophilia (a clinico-pathological study of 60 cases)

Chaubey, B.S.; Mundada, B.R.; Grover, S.

Journal of the Association of Physicians of India 22(11): 797-804

1974


ISSN/ISBN: 0004-5772
PMID: 4448815
Document Number: 76664
Of 60 patients with pulmonary symptoms and high absolute eosinophil counts, 49 responded to treatment with diethylcarbamazine and were diagnosed as cases of tropical pulmonary eosinophilia. Microfilariae were detected in night blood smears in one case only. The clinical and laboratory findings and the histology of lung biopsy material are described.

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